Community Water System · PWSID NY5000733

Cameron Valley Estates

Serves 78 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNorth Chili, New York
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1994: 48 violations. 16 over the limit · 28 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

16Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
28Missed or late test2 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 92% of active water systems in New York. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 119951997 · Missed or late test: 1200020052008 · Missed or late test: 22008 · Missed or late test: 22009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Over the limit: 52024 · Over the limit: 52024 · Over the limit: 52024 · Over the limit: 52024 · Over the limit: 52025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% over the limit · 1658% missed or late test · 288% notice or report · 4

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+IronManganese2024-10-01 · Iron: measured 0.7020 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (2.3×)2024-10-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4390 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.5×)2024-07-01 · Iron: measured 0.8420 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (2.8×)2024-01-01 · Manganese: measured 0.5690 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.9×)2024-01-01 · Iron: measured 0.5470 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.8×)2023-07-01 · Manganese: measured 0.7890 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (2.6×)2020-10-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4860 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.6×)2020-07-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4520 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.5×)2019-04-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4750 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.6×)2019-01-01 · Manganese: measured 0.5570 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.9×)2019-01-01 · Iron: measured 0.5890 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (2.0×)2018-07-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4520 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.5×)2018-07-01 · Iron: measured 0.4720 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.6×)2017-10-01 · Iron: measured 945.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (3.1×)2017-04-01 · Manganese: measured 0.3440 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Manganese: measured 0.3930 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.3×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.6 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0.5 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 1997-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.7020 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4390 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.8420 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.5690 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.5470 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-07-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.7890 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-10-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-10-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-07-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2021-07-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-07-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-10-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4860 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-07-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4520 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2019-10-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2019-10-01IronMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2019-04-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4750 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-01-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.5570 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 23 entries
  1. 2019-01-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.5890 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2018-10-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-09-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01ManganeseMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4520 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.4720 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 945.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2017-07-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-04-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 0.3440 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2017-01-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 0.3930 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  18. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2008-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 1997-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  23. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served78
Service connections30
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNorth Chili
EPA ZIP on file14514

Areas served

  • Steuben County

Reading this record

Cameron Valley Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 78 people in North Chili, New York. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.